Data processing: speech signal processing, linguistics, language translation, and audio compression/decompression inventions 12/08

20080319733 - System and method to dynamically manipulate and disambiguate confusable speech input using a table: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for disambiguating confusable speech using a table. The method embodiment provides assigning an identifier to each of at least one portion of received speech, querying a table to determine whether at least one entry is associated with the identifier, and if multiple entries... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080319734 - Terminal and method for supporting multi-language: A device, computer program product and method for supporting multi-language of a mobile terminal comprising: receiving broadcast data; checking whether a selected broadcast channel supports multi-language based on additional information of the received broadcast data; and outputting an indication message when the broadcast channel supports the multi-language, whereby a user... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080319736 - Discriminative syntactic word order model for machine translation: A discriminatively trained word order model is used to identify a most likely word order from a set of word orders for target words translated from a source sentence. For each set of word orders, the discriminatively trained word order model uses features based on information in a source dependency... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080319737 - Method and apparatus for connecting a cellular telephone user to the internet: A method and devices are described for providing a user of a mobile communication apparatus with a prediction of a string of characters based on one or more characters. The method includes the steps of: receiving information that relates to the location of the mobile communication apparatus; receiving character information... Agent: Browdy And Neimark, P.l.l.c. 624 Ninth Street, Nw

20080319735 - Systems and methods for automatic semantic role labeling of high morphological text for natural language processing applications: Systems and methods are provided for automated semantic role labeling for languages having complex morphology. In one aspect, a method for processing natural language text includes receiving as input a natural language text sentence comprising a sequence of white-space delimited words including inflicted words that are formed of morphemes including... Agent: F. Chau & Associates, LLC

20080319738 - Word probability determination: A word corpus is identified and a word probability value is associated with each word in the word corpus. A sentence is identified, candidate segmentations of the sentence are determined based on the word corpus, and the associated probability value for each word in the word corpus is iteratively adjusted... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080319739 - Low complexity decoder for complex transform coding of multi-channel sound: A multi-channel audio decoder provides a reduced complexity processing to reconstruct multi-channel audio from an encoded bitstream in which the multi-channel audio is represented as a coded subset of the channels along with a complex channel correlation matrix parameterization. The decoder translates the complex channel correlation matrix parameterization to a... Agent: Klarquist Sparkman LLP

20080319740 - Adaptive gain reduction for encoding a speech signal: There is provided a method of encoding an input speech signal. The method comprises identifying a fixed codebook vector from a fixed codebook; identifying an adaptive codebook vector from a adaptive codebook; calculating an adaptive codebook gain; reducing the adaptive codebook gain by an amount; optimally selecting a fixed codebook... Agent: Farjami & Farjami LLP

20080319741 - System and method for improving robustness of speech recognition using vocal tract length normalization codebooks: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for performing speech recognition. The method embodiment comprises selecting a codebook from a plurality of codebooks with a minimal acoustic distance to a received speech sample, the plurality of codebooks generated by a process of (a) computing a vocal tract length for... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080319743 - Asr-aided transcription with segmented feedback training: An ASR-aided transcription system with segmented feedback training is provided, the system including a transcription process manager configured to extract a first segment and a second segment from an audio input of speech uttered by a speaker, and an ASR engine configured to operate in a first speech recognition mode... Agent: Ibm Corporation, T.j. Watson Research Center

20080319745 - Method and device for providing speech-to-text encoding and telephony service: A machine-readable medium and a network device are provided for speech-to-text translation. Speech packets are received at a broadband telephony interface and stored in a buffer. The speech packets are processed and textual representations thereof are displayed as words on a display device. Speech processing is activated and deactivated in... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080319744 - Method and system for rapid transcription: A method and system for producing and working with transcripts according to the invention eliminates the foregoing time inefficiencies. By dispersing a source recording to a transcription team in small segments, so that team members transcribe segments in parallel, a rapid transcription process delivers a fully edited transcript within minutes.... Agent: Glenn Patent Group

20080319742 - System and method for posting to a blog or wiki using a telephone: The present invention discloses a system and method for creating, editing, and posting a BLOG or a WIKI using a telephone. In the invention, a voice-based, real-time telephone communication can be established between a user and a voice response system. User speech can be received over the communication. The user... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319746 - Keyword outputting apparatus and method: A keyword analysis device obtains word vectors represented by the documents by analyzing keywords contained in each of documents input in a designated period. A topic cluster extraction device extracts topic clusters belonging to the same topic from a plurality of documents. A keyword extraction device extracts, as a characteristic... Agent: Charles N.j. Ruggiero, Esq. Ohlandt, Greeley, Ruggiero & Perle, L.L.P.

20080319747 - Spoken man-machine interface with speaker identification: The method of operating a man-machine interface unit includes classifying at least one utterance of a speaker to be of a first type or of a second type. If the utterance is classified to be of the first type, the utterance belongs to a known speaker of a speaker data... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080319748 - Conversation system and conversation software: A first domain satisfying a first condition concerning a current utterance understanding result and a second domain satisfying a second condition concerning a selection history are specified. For each of the first and second domains, indices representing reliability in consideration of the utterance understanding history, selection history, and utterance generation... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20080319749 - Generic spelling mnemonics: A system and method for creating a mnemonics Language Model for use with a speech recognition software application, wherein the method includes generating an n-gram Language Model containing a predefined large body of characters, wherein the n-gram Language Model includes at least one character from the predefined large body of... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20080319750 - Concept monitoring in spoken-word audio: Monitoring a spoken-word audio stream for a relevant concept is disclosed. A speech recognition engine may recognize a plurality of words from the audio stream. Function words that do not indicate content may be removed from the plurality of words. A concept may be determined from at least one word... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080319751 - Systems and methods for responding to natural language speech utterance: Systems and methods for receiving natural language queries and/or commands and execute the queries and/or commands. The systems and methods overcomes the deficiencies of prior art speech query and response systems through the application of a complete speech-based information query, retrieval, presentation and command environment. This environment makes significant use... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20080319752 - Speech synthesizer generating system and method thereof: A speech synthesizer generating system and a method thereof are provided. A speech synthesizer generator in the speech synthesizer generating system automatically generates a speech synthesizer conforming to a speech output specification input by a user. In addition, a recording script is automatically generated by a recording script generator in... Agent: Jianq Chyun Intellectual Property Office

20080319753 - Technique for training a phonetic decision tree with limited phonetic exceptional terms: The present invention discloses a method for training an exception-limited phonetic decision tree. An initial subset of data can be selected and used for creating an initial phonetic decision tree. Additional terms can then be incorporated into the subset. The enlarged subset can be used to evaluate the phonetic decision... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319754 - Text-to-speech apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus for converting text data into sound signal, comprises: a phoneme determiner for determining phoneme data corresponding to a plurality of phonemes and pause data corresponding to a plurality of pauses to be inserted among a series of phonemes in the text... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080319755 - Text-to-speech apparatus: According to an aspect of an embodiment, an apparatus for converting text data into sound signal, comprises: a phoneme determiner for determining phoneme data corresponding to a plurality of phonemes and pause data corresponding to a plurality of pauses to be inserted among a series of phonemes in the text... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20080319756 - Electronic device and method for determining a mixing parameter: The method of determining a parameter for mixing a first content item (X1) and a second content item (X2) comprises the steps of detecting a simultaneous (59) occurrence of vocals (55, 57) at a potential mixing point between the first content item (X1) and the second content item (X2), and... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080319760 - Creating and editing web 2.0 entries including voice enabled ones using a voice only interface: The present invention discloses a method for creating Web 2.0 entries, such as WIKI entries. In the method, a voice communication channel can be established between a user and an automated response system. User speech input can be received over the voice communication channel. A Web 2.0 entry can be... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319759 - Integrating a voice browser into a web 2.0 environment: The present invention discloses a system and method for integrating a voice browser into a Web 2.0 environment. For example, a system is disclosed which includes at least a Web 2.0 server, a voice browser, and a server-side speech processing system. The Web 2.0 server can serve Web 2.0 content... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319757 - Speech processing system based upon a representational state transfer (rest) architecture that uses web 2.0 concepts for speech resource interfaces: A speech processing system can include a client, a speech for Web 2.0 system, and a speech processing system. The client can access a speech-enabled application using at least one Web 2.0 communication protocol. For example, a standard browser of the client can use a standard protocol to communicate with... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319758 - Speech-enabled application that uses web 2.0 concepts to interface with speech engines: The present invention discloses a speech-enabled application that includes two or more linked markup documents that together form a speech-enabled application served by a Web 2.0 server. The linked markup documents can conform to an ATOM PUBLISHING PROTOCOL (APP) based protocol. Additionally, the linked markup documents can include an entry... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319761 - Speech processing method based upon a representational state transfer (rest) architecture that uses web 2.0 concepts for speech resource interfaces: The present invention discloses a method of performing speech processing operations based upon Web 2.0 type interfaces with speech engines. The method can include a step of interfacing with a Web 2.0 server from a standard browser. A speech-enabled application served by the Web 2.0 server can be accessed. The... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319763 - System and dialog manager developed using modular spoken-dialog components: A dialog manager and spoken dialog service having a dialog manager generated according to a method comprising selecting a top level flow controller based on application type, selecting available reusable subdialogs for each application part, developing a subdialog for each application part not having an available subdialog and testing and... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080319762 - Using a wiki editor to create speech-enabled applications: The present invention discloses a system and a method for creating and editing speech-enabled WIKIs. A WIKI editor can be served to client-side Web browsers so that end-users can utilize WIKI editor functions, which include functions to create and edit speech-enabled WIKI applications. A WIKI server can serve speech-enabled WIKI... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080319765 - Method and apparatus for decoding a signal: An apparatus for decoding a signal and method thereof are disclosed, by which the audio signal can be controlled in a manner of changing/giving spatial characteristics (e.g., listener's virtual position, virtual position of a specific source) of the audio signal. The present invention includes receiving an object parameter including level... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080319764 - Method for determining an audio data spatial encoding mode: A method of determining a spatial coding mode for audio data sent by a sender entity (20) to a receiver terminal (10) adapted to receive said audio data in one or more sound reproduction formats. The method comprises the steps of the receiver terminal (10) indicating (1) to the sender... Agent: Cohen, Pontani, Lieberman & Pavane LLP

20080312901 - Character input assist method, character input assist system, character input assist program, user terminal, character conversion method and character conversion program: The present invention enables character conversion at a low cost for a contents provider and with a high convenience for a user. In a character input assist system, text data assigned with an identifier and indicating the class of text entry field are sent from a Web server, and the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080312902 - Interlanguage communication with verification: An apparatus, method, and control means enabling a user to select a phrase (196) from a logically ordered phrase-set (140) displayed on a user display (32), to display a translation of that phrase (196) into the target language (144) on a respondent display (44), and to play a prerecorded audio... Agent: Russell K. Dollinger

20080312903 - Natural language interface customization: A predefined interface is presented to a remote user. A natural language inquiry from the remote user is received via the predefined interface. The natural language inquiry is configured for use in an analysis. A customized interface is presented to the remote user based on the analysis of the natural... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20080312905 - Extracting tokens in a natural language understanding application: A method of processing text within a natural language understanding system can include applying a first tokenization technique to a sentence using a statistical tokenization model. A second tokenization technique using a named entity can be applied to the sentence when the first tokenization technique does not extract a needed... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C. Kevin T. Cuenot

20080312907 - Method and system for data modeling according to user perspectives: Techniques for the design and use of a perception modeling language for communicating according to the perspective of at least two communicators. The disclosed method and system provide for forming a model including a predetermined number of states and a plurality of related transitions. The disclosed subject matter represents each... Agent: HulseyIPIntellectual Property Lawyers, P.C.

20080312906 - Reclassification of training data to improve classifier accuracy: A method of creating a statistical classification model for a classifier within a natural language understanding system can include processing training data using an existing statistical classification model. Sentences of the training data correctly classified into a selected class of the statistical classification model can be selected. The selected sentences... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C. Kevin T. Cuenot

20080312904 - Sub-model generation to improve classification accuracy: A method of classifying text input for use with a natural language understanding system can include determining classification information including a primary classification and one or more secondary classifications for a received text input using a statistical classification model (statistical model). A statistical classification sub-model (statistical sub-model) can be selectively... Agent: Cuenot & Forsythe, L.L.C. Kevin T. Cuenot

20080312909 - System for adaptive multi-cultural searching and matching of personal names: An automated name searching system incorporates an automatic name classifier and a multi-path architecture in which different algorithms are applied based on cultural identity of the query name. The name classifier operates with a preemptive list, analysis of morphological elements, length, and linguistic rules. A name regularizer produces a character... Agent: Konrad Raynes & Victor, LLP Attn: Ibm54

20080312908 - Systems and methods for normalization of linguistic structures: A text passage is analyzed to determine whether it contains a “be” verb or a “have” verb. If so, syntactic dependencies are obtained from the text passage, a direct object relation involving the “be” verb or “have” verb is obtained, and a verbal form of a noun appearing in the... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC.

20080312910 - Dictionary word and phrase determination: Candidate words in search queries are identified, each candidate word including one or more consecutive characters. For each candidate word, a first count is determined, the first count representing a number of times that the candidate word is the only word in the search queries, and a second count is... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080312911 - Dictionary word and phrase determination: Context signals in documents are identified, characters bounded by the context signals are identified, one or more candidate words defined by the characters bounded by the context signals are identified, and one or more of the candidate words are added to an input method editor dictionary.... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20080312912 - Audio signal encoding/decoding method and apparatus: Provided is an audio signal encoding method including transforming an input signal from a time domain to a time/frequency domain using a first transformation method, extracting a stereo parameter from a signal of the time/frequency domain, encoding the stereo parameter, and down-mixing the signal of the time/frequency domain, transforming each... Agent: Stanzione & Kim, LLP

20080312913 - Pitch-estimation method and system, and pitch-estimation program: The above expression is computed only with respect to a fundamental frequency F wherein x−(F+1200 log2 h) is close to zero. With this arrangement, computations to be performed may considerably be reduced, and computing time may accordingly be shortened.... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080312914 - Systems, methods, and apparatus for signal encoding using pitch-regularizing and non-pitch-regularizing coding: A time shift calculated during a pitch-regularizing (PR) encoding of a frame of an audio signal is used to time-shift a segment of another frame during a non-PR encoding.... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080312915 - Audio encoding: A hybrid sinusoidal/pulse excitation encoder has been recently proposed for constructing a scalable audio encoder The base layer consisting of data supplied by the sinusoidal encoder retains the main features of the input signal achieving medium to high quality audio at a very low bit rate. Quality can be further... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080312916 - Receiver intelligibility enhancement system: The intelligibility of speech signals is improved in the many situations where a voice signal is communicated or stored. Means and methods are disclosed for developing a scheme with high voice signal intelligibility without sacrifice of voice quality. The disclosed method comprises certain steps, including, but not limited to: Learning... Agent: Steven A. Nielsen Allman & Nielsen, P.c

20080312917 - Method and apparatus for predictively quantizing voiced speech: A method and apparatus for predictively quantizing voiced speech includes a parameter generator and a quantizer. The parameter generator is configured to extract parameters from frames of predictive speech such as voiced speech, and to transform the extracted information to a frequency-domain representation. The quantizer is configured to subtract a... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20080312918 - Voice performance evaluation system and method for long-distance voice recognition: A system and a method are provided for evaluating a voice performance in order to recognize a long-distance voice. The system implements a voice performance evaluation function for long-distance voice input in a robot. Particularly, in robots including a network robot, it is required to normally perform voice recognition so... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20080312919 - Method and system for speech based document history tracking: A method and a system of history tracking corrections in a speech based document are disclosed. The speech based document comprises one or more sections of text recognized or transcribed from sections of speech, wherein the sections of speech are dictated by a user and processed by a speech recognizer... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080312920 - Speech-to-speech generation system and method: An expressive speech-to-speech generation system which can generate expressive speech output by using expressive parameters extracted from the original speech signal to drive the standard TTS system. The system comprises: speech recognition means, machine translation means, text-to-speech generation means, expressive parameter detection means for extracting expressive parameters from the speech... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080312921 - Speech recognition utilizing multitude of speech features: In a speech recognition system, the combination of a log-linear model with a multitude of speech features is provided to recognize unknown speech utterances. The speech recognition system models the posterior probability of linguistic units relevant to speech recognition using a log-linear model. The posterior model captures the probability of... Agent: Anne Vachon Dougherty

20080312923 - Active speaker identification: Procedures for identifying clients in an audio event are described. In an example, a media server may order clients providing audio based on the input level. An identifier may be associated with the client for identifying the client providing input within the event. The ordered clients may be included in... Agent: Merchant & Gould (microsoft)

20080312922 - Method and system for packetised content streaming optimisation: A method of determining the speech content of a packet carrying speech encoded data missing from speech segment communicated by in a packetised data stream communicated using at least one VOIP link between a server platform and a client platform, the method comprising at the client platform: receiving a plurality... Agent: Nixon & Vanderhye, PC

20080312925 - System and method for implementing voice print-based priority call routing: A system, method, and computer-usable medium for routing a call. A server receives a call from a client. A routing engine captures a voice print from the call. In response to the routing engine capturing the voice print from the call, the routing engine compares the voice print to a... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20080312924 - System and method for tracking persons of interest via voiceprint: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for tracking a person of interest. The method embodiment comprises identifying a person of interest, capturing a voiceprint of the person of interest, comparing a received voiceprint of a caller with the voiceprint of the person of interest, and tracking the caller... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080312926 - Automatic text-independent, language-independent speaker voice-print creation and speaker recognition: An automatic dual-step, text independent, language-independent speaker voice-print creation and speaker recognition method, wherein a neural network-based technique is used in a first step and a Markov model-based technique is used in a second step. In particular, the first step uses a neural network-based technique for decoding the content of... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080312927 - Computer assisted interactive writing instruction method: A computer assisted method of instruction for writing that is directed toward students of English as a second language. The method includes instruction for a plurality of composition types with interactive assistance in the writing strategies and tone of writing. The student selects the type of composition and can choose... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20080312928 - Natural language speech recognition calculator: Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method and system for evaluating a mathematical expression spoken in a natural language by a user. The disclosed method and system provides a natural language speech recognition calculator comprising a speech recognition engine. The spoken mathematical expression is transmitted to the speech recognition engine... Agent: Ashok Tankha Of Counsel, Lipton, Weinberger & Husick

20080312930 - Method and system for aligning natural and synthetic video to speech synthesis: According to MPEG-4's TTS architecture, facial animation can be driven by two streams simultaneously—text, and Facial Animation Parameters. In this architecture, text input is sent to a Text-To-Speech converter at a decoder that drives the mouth shapes of the face. Facial Animation Parameters are sent from an encoder to the... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080312931 - Speech synthesis method, speech synthesis system, and speech synthesis program: A speech synthesis system stores a group of speech units in a memory, selects a plurality of speech units from the group based on prosodic information of target speech, the speech units selected corresponding to each of segments which are obtained by segmenting a phoneme string of the target speech... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080312929 - Using finite state grammars to vary output generated by a text-to-speech system: The present invention discloses a text-to-speech system that provides output variability. The system can include a finite state grammar, a variability engine and a text-to-speech engine. The finite state grammar can contain a phrase role consisting of one or more phrase elements. The phrase rule can deterministically generate a variable... Agent: Patents On Demand, P.A.

20080312932 - Error management in an audio processing system: An audio processing system includes a voice decoder and an audio processor. In one exemplary embodiment, the audio processing system is embedded in a headset unit that is wirelessly coupled to a game console. The voice decoder is used to decode a stream of incoming voice data packets carried over... Agent: Woodcock Washburn LLP (microsoft Corporation)

20080312933 - Interfacing an application server to remote resources using enterprise java beans as interface components: A method for interfacing an application server with a resource can include the step of associating a plurality of Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs) to a plurality of resources, where a one-to-one correspondence exists between EJB and resource. An application server can receive an application request and can determine a resource... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080312935 - Media device with speech recognition and method for using same: A media player utilizing speech recognition software to perform functions of the media player or make file selections that may be played by the media player. The media player may include one or more microphones to receive a voice command from the user. The one or more microphones may be... Agent: Frederick W. Mau Ii

20080312934 - Using results of unstructured language model based speech recognition to perform an action on a mobile communications facility: A user may control a mobile communication facility through recognized speech provided to the mobile communication facility. Speech that is recorded by a user using a mobile communication facility resident capture facility is transmitted through a wireless communication facility to a speech recognition facility. The speech recognition facility generates results... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..

20080312936 - Apparatus and method for transmitting/receiving voice data to estimate voice data value corresponding to resynchronization period: Provided are an apparatus and method for estimating a voice data value corresponding to a silent period produced in a key resynchronization process using the sine waveform characteristic of voice when encrypted digital voice data is transmitted in one-way wireless communication environment. The apparatus includes a transmitter that generates a... Agent: Ladas & Parry LLP

20080306725 - Generating a phrase translation model by iteratively estimating phrase translation probabilities: A phrase translation model is trained without assuming a segmentation of training data into non-overlapping phrase pairs. Instead, the training algorithm assumes that any particular phrase instance has only a single phrase instance in another language as its translation in that instance, but that phrases can overlap. The model is... Agent: Westman Champlin (microsoft Corporation)

20080306726 - Machine-processable global knowledge representation system and method using an extensible markup language consisting of natural language-independent base64-encoded words: A global knowledge representation system and method using an extensible, language-independent markup language made up of KODAXIL encoded words, includes crafting a universal representation of knowledge in any natural language composed of words and symbols as a string of KODAXIL words which are an extensible set of BASE64 encodings of... Agent: Ashley J. Wells

20080306724 - Treatment planning and progress tracking systems and methods: The present invention provides systems and methods of managing planning and delivery of an orthodontic treatment using planning tools, treatment guidelines, instructions and appointment planning tools customized to the individual patient being treated, as well as tools and methods for tracking delivery and patient progression through an orthodontic treatment plan.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP (018563)

20080306727 - Hybrid machine translation system: In order to achieve improvement of the accuracy and speed of a conversion of source language elements to target language elements a machine translation system is provided with context and linguistic processing comprising a dictionary storage 100, linguistic analysis storage 114, transfer rule storage 116 and a context storage 130,... Agent: Wolf Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.

20080306728 - Apparatus, method, and computer program product for machine translation: A receiving unit receives an input sentence in a source language. An example translation candidate translated from the input sentence into a target sentence and a first likelihood of the example translation candidate are obtained. A generating unit translates the input sentence into the target language by a process different... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20080306729 - Method and system for searching a multi-lingual database: A system and method of searching a database in which documents of different languages are included. The system includes a synonym or keyword dictionary which is bi-directional and allows for translation of keywords between a first language and other languages. The translated words keywords for the document are stored in... Agent: Norman L. Gundel C/o IBM Corporation Intellectual

20080306730 - System and method to modify text entry: A system and method to modify entry of text is provided. The system includes an input device, a display device, and a processor configured to store a correlation between at least one word with at least one candidate phrase; receive at least one word into the input device; identify the... Agent: Ge Healthcare C/o Fletcher Yoder, PC

20080306731 - Electronic equipment equipped with dictionary function: Disclosed is an electronic dictionary including a plurality of dictionary databases. In a twin retrieval using two dictionaries, a sub-dictionary according to a main dictionary is set besides the main dictionary. When a user inputs a retrieval character string, the electronic dictionary retrieves corresponding headwords from the main dictionary to... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20080306732 - Method and device for carrying out optimal coding between two long-term prediction models: Disclosed is a system and method for implementing compression coding of audio signals, such as speech signals, using two long-term prediction (LTP) models. The method determines the parameters of a second long-term prediction model on the basis of the parameters of at least one first LTP model. The present invention... Agent: Mckenna Long & Aldridge LLP

20080306733 - Imaging apparatus, voice processing circuit, noise reducing circuit, noise reducing method, and program: A noise reducing circuit includes a denoising unit configured to eliminate a noise band from an input voice signal; a noise recognizing unit configured to recognize noise included in the voice signal; a denoising period generating unit configured to generate a signal indicating a denoising period in accordance with an... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080306734 - Signal noise reduction: Provision to reduce production of musical noise. A noise reduction device includes: means for calculating a rank for each element included in a first region having predetermined sizes in the time axis direction and in the frequency axis direction, depending on a value of the element, in a noise section... Agent: Louis Paul Herzberg

20080306735 - Systems and methods for indicating presence of data: Included are systems and methods for indicating presence of data. At least one embodiment of a method includes receiving communications data associated with a communication session and determining at least one point of audio silence in the communications session. Some embodiments include creating tagging data configured to indicate the at... Agent: Nathan S. Huynh

20080306736 - Method and system for a subband acoustic echo canceller with integrated voice activity detection: Methods and systems for a subband acoustic echo canceller with integrated voice activity detection are disclosed and may include adjusting transmit and/or receive powers of wirelessly communicated audio signals based on voice activity detection via subband analysis of the wirelessly communicated audio signals. The receive power may be adjusted by... Agent: Mcandrews Held & Malloy, Ltd

20080306737 - Systems and methods for classifying and representing gestural inputs: Gesture and handwriting recognition agents provide possible interpretations of electronic ink. Recognition is performed on both individual strokes and combinations of strokes in the input ink lattice. The interpretations of electronic ink are classified and encoded as symbol complexes where symbols convey specific attributes of the contents of the stroke.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080306738 - Voice processing methods and systems: Voice processing methods and systems are provided. An utterance is received. The utterance is compared with teaching materials according to at least one matching algorithm to obtain a plurality of matching values corresponding to a plurality of voice units of the utterance. Respective voice units are scored in at least... Agent: Quintero Law Office, PC

20080306739 - Sound source separation system: A system capable of separating sound source signals with high precision while improving a convergence rate and convergence precision. A process of updating a current separation matrix Wk to a next separation matrix Wk+1 such that a next value J(Wk+1) of a cost function is closer to a minimum value... Agent: Rankin, Hill & Clark LLP

20080306742 - Apparatus, method, and program for supporting speech interface design: s

20080306740 - Remotely and interactively controlling semi-automatic devices: An apparatus, system, method and computer program product are provided for enabling a user to remotely and interactively control, using voice commands, the processing tasks of multiple pieces of equipment, such as semi-automatic medication storing, dispensing and packaging devices. In particular, an apparatus may be configured to provide a user... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20080306741 - Robot and method for establishing a relationship between input commands and output reactions: The present invention relates to a robot and method for establishing a relationship between input commands and output reactions. When initiating an input configuration program, the robot fetches a predetermined motion output reaction and performs a corresponding motion. At this time, the robot receives a vocal input command from a... Agent: North America Intellectual Property Corporation

20080306743 - System and method of using modular spoken-dialog components: A system and method are disclosed for switching contexts within a spoken dialog between a user and a spoken dialog system. The spoken dialog system utilizes modular subdialogs that are invoked by at least one flow controller that is a finite state model and that associated with a dialog manager.... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080306744 - Device and a method of playing audio clips: A device for playing audio clips, a method of playing audio clips and a data storage medium having stored thereon computer code means for instructing a computer system to execute a method of playing audio clips. The device comprising a processor scalable in voltage, frequency, or both; a switch for... Agent: Foley And Lardner LLP Suite 500

20080306745 - Distributed audio coding for wireless hearing aids: d

20080300853 - Character input device, mobile terminal, and character input program: A character input device is disclosed. The device includes a character input section including a plurality of character keys; a display section that displays an input character(s); and a next word prediction section that predicts a respective word being subsequently input in an event of input-word reception in the character... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20080300852 - Multi-lingual conference call: The present invention relates to apparatus arranged to facilitate translation of speech within a conference call. The apparatus receives speech data in a first language, converts the speech data in the first language into meta-data; and the meta-data is then translated into speech data in a second language. The apparatus... Agent: Barnes & Thornburg LLP

20080300854 - Camera dictionary based on object recognition: A portable device may include a camera to capture a picture or a video, object recognition logic to identify a target object within the picture or the video captured by the camera, and output a first string corresponding to the identified target object, logic to translate the first string to... Agent: Harrity & Harrity, LLP

20080300855 - Method for realtime spoken natural language translation and apparatus therefor: A method and apparatus for performing real time automatic translation of the spoken language are provided. A spoken language input is received at one end comprising at least one source language and delivered at other end comprising at least one target language using natural language processing technology and language translation... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080300858 - Image processing apparatus, image processing method and computer readable medium: An image processing apparatus includes a region dividing section, an character recognizing section, a classifying section, a translating section, a calculation section and a correcting section. The region dividing section divides a document image into sentence regions. The character recognizing section recognizes characters in the respective sentence regions. The classifying... Agent: Oliff & Berridge, PLC

20080300857 - Method for aligning sentences at the word level enforcing selective contiguity constraints: An alignment method includes, for a source sentence in a source language, identifying whether the sentence includes at least one candidate term comprising a contiguous subsequence of words of the source sentence. A target sentence in a target language is aligned with the source sentence. This includes developing a probabilistic... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080300856 - System and method for structuring information: A translational language system and method for structuring irregular, or unstructured, information are provided. The language system comprising at least one compulsory characteristic for defining a particular nuance of an irregular communication; and at least one term or phrase corresponding to the at least one compulsory characteristic for further defining... Agent: Hunton & Williams LLP Intellectual Property Department

20080300859 - System and method for automatic natural language translation of embedded text regions in images during information transfer: Image or graphic elements such as pictures, icons and clip art, are intercepted during transfer from a computer source to a computer destination, such as during a cut-and-paste operation. Embedded text within the intercepted element is optically recognized, and encoded text is extracted. It is determined if the language of... Agent: Ibm Corporation (rhf)

20080300860 - Language translation for customers at retail locations or branches: One or more kiosks are provided at a retail establishment or branch. Each kiosk includes first audio and video equipment for linking with a given network and for enabling persons at a kiosk to communicate with a selected language interpreter located off site. Second audio and video equipment is provided... Agent: Law Office Of Leo Zucker

20080300861 - Word formation method and system: A computer-implemented method of word formation in a data processing system. A plurality of basic Arabic naked characters is received in sequence. The plurality of basic Arabic naked characters is concatenated to form a naked word including the plurality of basic Arabic naked characters. The naked word is associated with... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080300862 - Authoring system: A method for supervising text includes receiving input text in a natural language, the input text including at least one source sentence. The input text is analyzed, which includes, for a source sentence in the input text, generating a syntacetic representation. A target sentence is generated in the same natural... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080300865 - Method, system, and apparatus for natural language mixed-initiative dialogue processing: In a natural language, mixed-initiative system, a method of processing user dialogue can include receiving a user input and determining whether the user input specifies an action to be performed or a token of an action. The user input can be selectively routed to an action interpreter or a token... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080300863 - Publishing tool for translating documents: Some embodiments of a publishing tool to translate documents have been presented. In one embodiment, a master document written in a first natural language is received. The master document is repurposed to generate a set of output documents in one or more predetermined formats, wherein each of the output document... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080300864 - Syndication of documents in increments: Some embodiments of a publishing tool to provide syndication in increments have been presented. In one embodiment, a set of documents in different formats and/or different natural languages has been generated from a master document. In response to a change in the master document, a corresponding part in each of... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman LLP

20080300866 - Method and system for creation and use of a wideband vocoder database for bandwidth extension of voice: The invention concerns a system (300) and method (400) for bandwidth extension of voice for improving the quality of voice in a communication system. The method and system include the steps of filtering (402) a wideband voice signal to produce a first filtered signal (301) and a second filtered signal... Agent: Akerman Senterfitt

20080300867 - System and method of analyzing voice via visual and acoustic data: A method and system for the assessment and diagnosis of voice in normal and diseased states can include determining at least one quantitative measure of vocal fold vibration using a laryngeal image recording of a subject's vocal fold obtained from an endoscopic device or an auditory recording of a subject... Agent: Yuling Yan

20080300868 - Digital recording apparatus and method, digital reproduction apparatus and method, and digital data conversion apparatus: A digital recording apparatus for recording 1-bit digital audio data of a first sampling frequency on a recording medium in accordance with the recording format of multi-bit PCM data of a second sampling frequency includes a storage section to which input 1-bit digital audio data of the first sampling frequency... Agent: Frommer Lawrence & Haug

20080300869 - Audio signal dereverberation: A method of estimating the reverberations in an acoustic signal (y) comprises the steps of determining the frequency spectrum (Y) of the signal (y), providing a first parameter (α) indicative of the decay of the reverberations part (r) of the signal over time, and providing a second parameter (β) indicative... Agent: Philips Intellectual Property & Standards

20080300870 - Method and module for improving personal speech recognition capability: A method and a module for improving personal speech recognition capability for use in a portable electronic device are provided. The portable electronic device has a predetermined recognition model constructed of a phoneme model for recognizing at least a command speech from a user. The method comprises the steps of:... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080300871 - Method and apparatus for identifying acoustic background environments to enhance automatic speech recognition: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for identifying an acoustic environment of a caller. The method embodiment comprises analyzing acoustic features of a received audio signal from a caller, receiving meta-data information, classifying a background environment of the caller based on the analyzed acoustic features and the meta-data,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080300872 - Scalable summaries of audio or visual content: Providing for browsing a summary of content formed of keywords that can scale to a user-defined level of detail is disclosed herein. Components of a system can include a summarization component that extracts keywords related to the content and associates the keywords with portions thereof, and a zooming component that... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20080300874 - Speech skills assessment: An approach to evaluating a person's speech skills includes automatically processing speech of a person and text some or all of which corresponds to the speech. In some examples, a job application procedure includes collecting speech from an applicant, and using text corresponding to the collected speech to automatically assess... Agent: Occhiuti Rohlicek & Tsao, LLP

20080300873 - Systems and methods for securely transcribing voicemail messages: A system or method for securely transcribing voicemail messages includes answering a call within a secure communication provider, the secure communication provider recording audio of the call, sending the audio to a voicemail transcription service via a secure communication link, transcribing the audio into text, and sending the text to... Agent: Lathrop & Gage Lc

20080300875 - Efficient speech recognition with cluster methods: A speech recognition method and system, the method comprising the steps of providing a speech model, said speech model includes at least a portion of a state of Gaussian, clustering said Gaussian of said speech model to give N clusters of Gaussians, wherein N is an integer and utilizing said... Agent: Texas Instruments Incorporated

20080300876 - Speech recognition device using statistical language model: [Solution] The present invention includes specific sentence generator 14 for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in grammar storing unit 12 and correction information stored in correction information storing unit 13 and then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080300877 - System and method for tracking fraudulent electronic transactions using voiceprints: Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer readable media for comparing customer voice prints with a database of known fraudulent voice signatures and continually updating the database to decrease the risk of identity theft. The method embodiment comprises comparing a received voice signal against a database of known fraudulent voice signatures,... Agent: At&t Corp.

20080300878 - Method for transporting speech data for a distributed recognition system: Speech signal information is formatted, processed and transported in accordance with a format adapted for TCP/IP protocols used on the Internet and other communications networks. NULL characters are used for indicating the end of a voice segment. The method is useful for distributed speech recognition systems such as a client-server... Agent: J. Nicholas Gross, Attorney

20080300879 - Factorial hidden markov model with discrete observations: A method for analyzing hidden dynamics, includes acquiring discrete observations, each discrete observation having an observed value selected from two or more allowed discrete values. A factorial hidden Markov model (FHMM) relating the discrete observations with a plurality of hidden dynamics is constructed. A contribution of the state of each... Agent: Fay Sharpe / Xerox - Rochester

20080300880 - Multi-lingual output device: This application discloses A multi-lingual output device for output of transactional information for a given customer, the device that includes a data base for determining what transaction information needs to be outputted, the local language in which the information is to be outputted, and the preferred language of the customer... Agent: Italia Ip

20080300881 - Speech recognition device using statistical language model: The present invention includes specific sentence generator 14 for generating a piece of sentence data specific to an application from a grammar stored in grammar storing unit 12 and correction information stored in correction information storing unit 13 and then storing the piece of data in specific sentence storing unit... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20080300882 - Methods and apparatus for conveying synthetic speech style from a text-to-speech system: A technique for producing speech output in a text-to-speech system is provided. A message is created for communication to a user in a natural language generator of the text-to-speech system. The message is annotated in the natural language generator with a synthetic speech output style. The message is conveyed to... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20080300883 - Projection apparatus with speech indication and control method thereof: A projection apparatus with speech indication and a control method thereof are provided. The projection apparatus comprises a storage unit, a transmission interface, a process unit, and an output unit. The storage unit is configured to store a plurality of speech data. The transmission interface is configured to connect to... Agent: Grossman, Tucker, Perreault & Pfleger, PLLC

20080300884 - Using voice commands from a mobile device to remotely access and control a computer: A method of using voice commands from a mobile device to remotely access and control a computer. The method includes receiving audio data from the mobile device at the computer. The audio data is decoded into a command. A software program that the command was provided for is determined. At... Agent: Mr. Christopher John Rourk Jackson Walker LLP

20080300885 - Speech communication system for patients having difficulty in speaking or writing: A speech communication system for patients having difficulty in speaking or writing comprises a display screen, a controller, a host having a storage unit for storing specific software and connected with the display screen, and a speaker connected with the host. A plurality of choices is presented on the display... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20080300886 - Systems and methods of a structured grammar for a speech recognition command system: In embodiments of the present invention, a system and method for enabling a user to interact with a computer platform using a voice command may comprise the steps of defining a structured grammar for handling a global voice command, defining a global voice command of the structured grammar wherein the... Agent: Strategic Patents P.C..